Saturday, August 12, 2017

Welcome to Sudeep Adhikari!

Tonight I'd like to welcome Sudeep Adhikari, one of the poets featured in Catfish McDaris' recent anthology, Resurrection of a Sunflower, a collection of poems and prose inspired by Vincent Van Gogh and his work. This evening a friend and I were looking through this wonderful anthology. I hope that you will check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998847607

Here are Sudeep's poems! (These are not in the anthology.)

Syntax of Infinity

I have these few pretty eyes of wound,always looking at me. Hurting mewith something bigger than love, pushing me to dream across the screaming abysses.

Universe is infinite they say, butit can't be bigger than the untamed eyesit can't be lonelier than the language nobody speaks of.

How can you not be possessed by the sights of waking gods?You want to wait. You want to be all of your shadows at once.

And you want to grow a jungleof hearts inside your heart. Just in case.

The Myth of Dialogues

Some awfully lonely thingswe are. Clutching gravity with ourbeer bottle in a sea of faces, smoking frantic air moleculesunder the bass drops bigger than our fear of piercing daylights.

A complete impossibility tohold a conversation, even with ourown sorry ass selves.

Atoms and bits, clubs and World WideWaste. We started looking forourselves once, but ended up drowning in the sewer of selfies Bio: Sudeep Adhikari is a structural engineer/Lecturer from Kathmandu, Nepal. His poetry has found place in many online/print literary journals, the recent being Red Fez , Kyoto , Your One Phone Call, Jawline Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Yellow Mama, Fauna Quarterly, Beatnik Cowboys and After The Pause.

Let's play some Bennie Maupin tonight. I learned about him by watching the documentary I Called Him Morgan (about Lee Morgan), and I've been enjoying Maupin's 1974 The Jewel in the Lotus.